CalikimOrganic Gardening for Everyone
Homegrown Vegetables Made Easy - No Experience Required!
CaliKim is an organic gardener, and helps gardeners all over the world learn how to grow their own food in a quick, simple, and inexpensive way through her enormously popular YouTube channel, CaliKim Garden & Home. Join CaliKim and her husband, Jerry, also known as CameraGuy, in their Southern California urban organic garden. They share garden how-tos, tips, and healthy garden-to-table recipes. CaliKim loves to try new things in the garden, so there are always surprises along the way. She is a brand spokesperson for Smart Pots, frequent lecturer, and operates an online store through her website where she sells proprietary, branded garden products produced in joint ventures with major garden suppliers. She is the author of Organic Gardening for Everyone and The First-Time Gardener: Raised Bed Gardening by Cool Springs Press as well as several self-published eBooks.
Introduction
1 Why I Grow My Own Food and Why You Should (and CAN) Too
2 Start Simple and Expand Later
3 The Secret to Gardening on a Budget - Starting Seeds Indoors
4 Transplanting and Transitioning Indoor Seedlings to the Great Outdoors
5 Placement of Your Garden and How to Prep It for Planting
6 Watering–The Key to a Productive Garden
7 Planting Vegetable Seedlings in the Garden
8 Garden Challenges–Pest and Disease Control, Extreme Weather
9 Harvesting Organic Vegetables Like a Pro
10 Revel in the Rewards–The Garden Gives Back
Appendix 1 Calikim's Quick Look–Warm-Weather Veggies
Appendix 2 Calikim's Quick Look–Cool-Weather Veggies
Glossary
Resources
About the Author
Index